Reportedly Chandrayaan-2 which is in the lunar orbit and just days away from attempting to land on the moon has sent back a second set of pictures. Meanwhile the photos were captured by the spacecraft’s Terrain Mapping Camera-2 (TMC-2) on August 23 at the altitude of 4375 kilometres and feature impact craters like Jackson, Mitra, Mach and Korolev.

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Apparently an impact crater is one that is formed by the impact of smaller bodies such as meteorites colliding into the moon’s surface. Furthermore the circular shape of the craters is because of the material flying out in every direction, and not because the colliding body itself is circular in shape, which is hardly ever the case and the Jackson impact crater on the moon, which is in the northern hemisphere of the lunar satellite, is 71 kilometres in diameter.



ISRO said “The interesting feature at the western outer rim of Mach crater is another impact crater, Mitra (92 km dia).  It is named after Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra, who was an Indian physicist and Padma bhushan recipient known for his pioneering work in the field of ionosphere and radiophysics”. Moreover north east to this crater lies the Kirkwood crater named after the American astronomer Daniel Kirkwood, another well-formed impact crater which is approximately 68 km dia (sic)”.


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